Fred Rogers

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

I don't think that the basics that kids need have changed in 10,000 years.

I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being.

The whole idea is to look at the television camera and present as much love as you possibly could to a person who might feel that he or she needs it.

Love isn't a perfect state of caring. It's an active noun, like 'struggle.'

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Just because somebody wants to be alone sometimes, it doesn't mean they don't love you.

The number 143 means 'I love you.' It takes one letter to say 'I' and four letters to say 'love' and three letters to say 'you.' One hundred and forty-three. 'I love you.' Isn't that wonderful?

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.